How Many Cookbooks Do You Have?

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Aunt Bea said:
What type of cookbooks do you collect?
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All kinds really. The one I got today is an Irish Pub Cookbook. I have lots of Asian and Mediterranean Cookbooks. Natural foods, Cardiac and Diabetic. Reprints of old cookbooks. If it has a recipe in it it's fair game.:rolleyes:
 
YIPEE....... went to the mailbox today and my Amazon order was there 'FOOD MADE FAST * ASIAN' from William Sonoma. It had so many great reviews I couldn't help myself. Nice hard cover book. The recipes look great can't wait to try some.
 
Oh-oh, I added 9 cookbooks to my collection today (I couldn't help myself--I stopped to make a donation at a local thrift store--all household books were 70% off...the most I paid for any one book was 60 cents). I snagged the following:

Bernardin's Le grande livre des conserves (The Big Preserves Book)--It has 400 delicious and original recipes, juices, catsups, purees, vinegars. I should have time to translate the recipes I want to try before next year's gardening season rolls around.

Oh, Fudge! by Lee Edwards Benning (this one I bought more for reading than actually making fudge--it has been years since I made candies--something I used to do a lot)

Crazy Plates by Janet and Greta Podleski (Looneyspoons)

Two of Rachel Ray's cookbooks

Two slow cooker cookbooks

A church cookbook from MI that is all cookies (Cookie Walk Recipes--for 15 cents, how could I leave it behind)

And one other, the "Enlightened Eater" (this is one I've been meaning to read for awhile).

I spent $4.45 for the lot of them. Not that I needed them, but...
 
I know this is heresy in some quarters, but I have too many cookbooks! I just can't seem to part with any of them, though. *sigh*
 
Chef Maloney said:
YIPEE....... went to the mailbox today and my Amazon order was there 'FOOD MADE FAST * ASIAN' from William Sonoma. It had so many great reviews I couldn't help myself. Nice hard cover book. The recipes look great can't wait to try some.
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I love WS cookbooks. Almost never fail. I have the essentials of Asian cooking from WS which I think shares a lot of recipes. It's great. Just watch the soy sauce in the recipes...start with 1/3 and taste....they must be using a different brand then me bc every time I follow the recipes involving soy sauce Its inedible.
 
I just got a tablet not too long ago and download a lot of free cookbooks. Most of them are crap but I got a few "real ones" but to be honest there is something about browsing a real book with paper pages that does it for me...kindle books don't have the same feeling.

Since I last posted I must have got 5 more books but I took them from my grandmother who no longer cooks so no splurging. She had a few good ones; cooking light, joy of cooking from like the 1960s, encyclopedia cookbook from same era . I really like all 3 of them almost all of my cookbooks I bought are ethnic so it's nice to have these reference books when I just need some help with gravy or fried fish.

That being said I have a huge list of cookbooks on my Amazon wish list - mostly books on a specific region or type of food as I go through phases and will cook like morrocan food or something for a month strate.
Looking forward to getting: food of life: ancient Persian.... And southern living
 
I took 5 cookbooks out of the shelves and into the used bookstore box...so I could try to fit 10 more in their place...
 
you have absolutely no intention of really giving up those 5 cookbooks, do you, pf? they will get crammed back into the bookcase along with 5 new cookbooks, right? isn't that the plan?
 
vitauta said:
you have absolutely no intention of really giving up those 5 cookbooks, do you, pf? they will get crammed back into the bookcase along with 5 new cookbooks, right? isn't that the plan?
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I don't think you read that right. I think it's 10 new cookbooks. :rolleyes:
 
Oh yeah...I have these memorized...besides, I figure a kid would like the Star Wars cookbook...you can only eat so many Wookie Cookies...
 
all this talk of cookbooks got me all riled up and I went to a used book store. They had lots of books, classics, etc but very few new/ethnic books which I prefer. I got:

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